Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to be in difficul- ties in Hoy Sound. The honorary secretary, the coxswain and the motor mechanic drove by car to a point near which two motor fishing vessels were ashore on the Quarry. At 11.40 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M.Paterson was launched in a gentle south-westerly wind. There was a smooth sea and an ebb tide. The life- boat stood by the Wick fishing vessels Fulmar and Morning Star until they settled down on the ebb tide. As they were then in no danger, the life-boat returned to harbour, arriving at 1.30.

She put out again at seven o'cJock and returned to the fishing vessels. The Morning Star was towed off on the flood tide and the Fulmar refloated unaided. The life-boat returned to her station at nine o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 11s..